Remix Assignment

    To create my remix assignment, I used clips from lots of news shows, as well as a few short clips of stand-up comedy, to create a view on gay marriage.  The fair use law protects this because I only used small pieces of the original works and none of it is being used to hurt the commercial value of the original pieces. 
    I created a remix video out of existing material to make my statement because that was my assignment, and I would have failed the project if I'd just brought in a piece of paper with the words "YAY GAY MARRIAGE" scribbled on it.  But even if it hadn't been an assignment I would have tried it, because after spending five weeks hearing about remix culture, the advent of digital media and copyright law, read/write culture has become something that I believe in.  Society will become stagnant if we continue to stay a "read only" culture.  There's a whole generation of people with both a message and the means to get it out into the world like never before.  How can we try to censor those people, that creativity?  What might be lost if we get all hung up on "fair use" and "copyrights?"  This new wave of ultra-censorship is just as awful, just as limiting, as burning books.  We need to stop trying to control the past and just embrace this new form of art and all of its wonderful weirdness.